Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
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"No." "How much money did you go to get?" "Two hunderd dollars." "Did you get it?" "Yes." "Do you know what money it was?" "Church-organ money. He told me." "Why did he give it to you?" "I made him." "How?" "Lemme tell it my own way--if I got to tell it.... He'd took my girl, and I never liked him, anyhow.... There'd been rumors his old man was bootleggin'. Nothin' to it, of course, and I knowed that. And I needed some money. Bought a beef critter off'n Marvin Preston next day. So I went to Mavin and says I was goin' to arrest his old man because I'd ketched him sellin' liquor, and Mavin he begged me I shouldn't. I told him the old man would git ten year, anyhow." "What did Mavin say to that?" |
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